Media

Fuji Xerox has brought some welcome relief to troubled Swiss marketing giant ISL by becoming an official partner of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Digital Sport, the website operator, is in discussions with Sports Network Group, the UK-based boxing promoters owned by Frank Warren, to take a stake in the company.

Motor racing supremo Bernie Ecclestone has defaulted on the $360million payment to the Federation Internationale de l?automobile (FIA) for purchase of long-term broadcasting and other commercial rights to Formula One, according to a report in the Financial Times

Cablevision Systems Corporation and Princeton Video Image (PVI) have formed a strategic alliance that should fuel a dramatic expansion of the PVI business.

Manchester United chairman Roland Smith is to remain at the club until March 2002, the English Premier League champions have said.

The XFL, pro-football presented the way World Wrestling Federation founder Vince McMahon thinks it should be, scored big in the ratings but drew sniggers from critics for its debut NBC broadcast. For the full story see the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.

The Williams tennis sisters Venus and Serena have won their cases to evict cyber-squatters from contested domain names, arbitrators have ruled.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground, one of Australia?s greatest sporting venues, has purchased "Event Business Management Software" (EBMS) from St Louis, Missouri?based Ungerboeck Systems, Inc (USI).

Sport, media and Leisure group, Enic has pulled out of its proposed takeover of Gibraltar-based bookmaker Victor Chandler.

Sky, one of the two direct-to-home services available in Latin America, has finally launched its service in Argentina.

XFL made a solid ratings start at the weekend despite some technical glitches in the coverage.

American Anita DeFrantz has officially declared she will be a candidate to succeed Juan Antonio Samaranch as president of the International Olympic Committee, according to local media reports.

The management of troubled EM.TV - which part owns SLEC, Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One holding company - is deeply split over a rescue deal with media group Kirch and a supervisory board meeting on Sunday brought no breakthrough, a source familiar with the situation has said.

The Premier League will sell their overseas rights in separate geographical blocs when the rights come up for negotiation in the next two weeks.

The UK government has repelled efforts by Leo Kirch to get round British legislation that protects every World Cup match from being broadcast on pay-TV.

Bernie Ecclestone has been quoted as saying he had no immediate plans to relinquish control of Formula One.